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THE TRUTH. 



A LEGTtIRE, 



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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 



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THE TRUTH. 
I. 

TPHROUGH millions of ages, by countless 
efforts to satisfy his wants, to gratify his 
passions, his appetites, man slowly developed 
his brain, changed two of his feet into hands 
and forced into the darkness of his brain a 
few gleams and glimmerings of reason. He 
was hindered by ignorance, by fear, by mis- 
takes, and he advanced only as he found the 
truth— the absolute facts. Through count- 
less years he has groped and crawled and 
struggled and climbed and stumbled toward 
the light. He has been hindered and delayed 
and deceived by augurs, and prophets — by 
popes and priests — he has been betrayed by 
saints, mislead by apostles and Christs, fright- 
ened by devils and ghosts — enslaved by chiefs 
and kings — robbed by altars and thrones. 
In the name of education his mind has been 

filled with mistakes, with miracles, and lies, 

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2 THE TRUTH. 

with the impossible, the absurd and infamous. 
In the name of religion he has been taught 
humility and arrogance, love and hatred, for- 
giveness and revenge. 

But the world is changing. We are tired 
of barbarian bibles and savage creeds. 

Nothing is greater — nothing is of more 
importance than to find, amid the errors and 
darkness of this life, a shining truth. 

Truth is the intellectual wealth of the 
world. 

The noblest of occupations is to search for 
truth. 

Truth is the foundation, the superstructure, 
and the glittering dome of progress. 

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, 
ennobles, and purities. The grandest ambi- 
tion that can enter the soul is to know the 
truth. 

Truth gives man the greatest power for 
good. Truth is sword and shield. It is the 
sacred light of the soul. 

The man who finds a truth lights a torch. 



THE TRUTH. 3 

How is Truth to be Found ? 

By investigation, experiment and reason. 

Every human being should be allowed to 
investigate to the extent of his desire — his 
ability. The literature of the world should 
be open to him — nothing prohibited, sealed 
or hidden. No subject can be too sacred to 
be understood. Each person should be al- 
lowed to reach his own conclusions and to 
speak his honest thought. 

He who threatens the investigator with 
punishment here, or hereafter, is an enemy 
of the human race. And he who tries to 
bribe the investigator with the promise of 
eternal joy is a traitor to his fellow-men. 

There is no real investigation without 
freedom — freedom from the fear of gods 
and men. 

So, all investigation — all experiment — 
should be pursued in the light of reason. 

Every man should be true to himself — true 
to the inward light. Each man, in the lab- 
oratory of his own mind, and for himself 



4 THE TRUTH. 

alone, should test the so-called facts — the 
theories of all the world. Truth, in accord- 
ance with his reason, should be his guide and 
master. To love the truth, thus perceived, 
is mental virtue — intellectual purity This is 
true manhood. This is freedom. 

To throw away your reason at the com- 
mand of churches, popes, parties, kings or 
gods, is to be a serf, a slave. 

It is not simply the right, but it is the duty 
of every man to think — to investigate for 
himself — and every man who tries to prevent 
this by force or fear, is doing all he can to 
degrade and enslave his fellow-men. 

Every Man should be Mentally 
Honest. 

He should preserve as his most precious 
jewel the perfect veracity of his soul. 

He should examine all questions presented 
to his mind, without prejudice, — unbiased by 
hatred or love — by desire or fear. His ob- 
ject and his only object should be to find the 
truth. He knows, if he listens to reason, 



THE TRUTH. 5 

that truth is not dangerous and that error is. 
He should weigh the evidence, the argu- 
ments, in honest scales — scales that passion 
or interest cannot change. He should care 
nothing for authority — nothing for names, 
customs or creeds — nothing for anything that 
his reason does not say is true. 

Of his world he should be the sovereign, 
and his soul should wear the purple. From his 
dominions should be banished the hosts of 
force and fear. 

He should be Intellectually Hos- 
pitable. 

Prejudice, egotism, hatred, contempt, dis- 
dain, are the enemies of truth and pro- 
gress. 

The real searcher after truth will not receive 
the old because it is old, or reject the new 
because it is new. He will not believe men 
because they are dead, or contradict them 
because they are alive. With him an utter- 
ance is worth the truth, the reason it con- 
tains, without the slightest regard to the 



6 THE TRUTH. 

author. He may have been a king or serf — 
a philosopher or servant, — but the utterance 
neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its 
value is absolutely independent of the fame 
or station of the man who gave it to the 
world. 

Nothing but falsehood needs the assistance 
of fame and place, of robes and mitres, of 
tiaras and crowns. 

The wise, the really honest and intelligent, 
are not swayed or governed by numbers — 
by majorities. 

They accept what they really believe to be 
true. They care nothing for the opinions of 
ancestors, nothing for creeds, assertions and 
theories, unless they satisfy the reason. 

In all directions they seek for truth, and 
when found, accept it with joy — accept it in 
spite of preconceived opinions — in spite of 
prejudice and hatred. 

This is the course pursued by wise and 
honest men, and no other course is possible 
for them. 



THE TRUTH. 7 

In every department of human endeavor 
men are seeking for the truth — for the facts. 
The statesman reads the history of the world, 
gathers the statistics of all nations to the end 
that his country may avoid the mistakes 
of the past. The geologist penetrates the 
rocks in search of facts — climbs mountains, 
visits the extinct craters, traverses islands 
and continents that he may know something 
of the history of the world. He wants the 
truth. 

The chemist, with crucible and retort, with 
countless experiments, is trying to find the 
qualities of substances — to ravel what nature 
has woven. 

The great mechanics dwell in the realm of 
the real. They seek by natural means to 
conquer and use the forces of nature. They 
want the truth — the actual facts. 

The physicians, the surgeons, rely on 
observation, experiment and reason. They 
become acquainted with the human body — 
with muscle, blood and nerve — with the 



8 THE TRUTH. 

wonders of the brain. They want nothing 
but the truth. 

And so it is with the students of every 
science. On every hand they look for facts, 
and it is of the utmost importance that they 
give to the world the facts they find. 

Their courage should equal their intelli- 
gence. No matter what the dead have said 
or the living believe, they should tell what 
they know. They should have intellectual 
courage. 

If it be good for man to find the truth — 
good for him to be intellectually honest and 
hospitable, then it is good for others to know 
the truths thus found. 

Every man should have the courage to 
give his honest thought. This makes the 
finder and publisher of truth a public bene- 
factor. 

Those who prevent, or try to prevent the 
expression of honest thought, are the foes of 
civilization — the enemies of truth. Nothing 
can exceed the egotism and impudence of the 



THE TRUTH. g 

man who claims the right to express his 
thought and denies the same right to others. 

It will not do to say that certain ideas are 
sacred, and that man has not the right to in- 
vestigate and test these ideas for himself. 

Who knows that they are sacred? Can 
anything be sacred to us that we do not 
know to be true ? 

For many centuries free speech has been 
an insult to God. Nothing has been more 
blasphemous than the expression of honest 
thought. For many ages the lips of the wise 
were sealed. The torches that truth had 
lighted, that courage carried and held aloft, 
were extinguished with blood. 

Truth has always been in favor of free 
speech — has always asked to be investigated 
— has always longed to be known and under- 
stood. Freedom, discussion, honesty, inves- 
tigation and courage are the friends and allies 
of truth. Truth loves the light and the open 
field. It appeals to the senses — to the judg- 
ment, the reason, to all the higher and nobler 



JO THE TRUTH. 

faculties and powers of the mind. It seeks 
to calm the passions, to destroy prejudice 
and to increase the volume and intensity of 
reason's flame. 

It does not ask man to cringe or crawl. 
It does not desire the worship of the ignorant 
or the prayers and praises of the frightened. 

It says to every human being, " Think for 
yourself. Enjoy the freedom of a god and 
have the goodness and the courage to ex- 
press your honest thought" 

Why should we pursue the truth ? and why 
should we investigate and reason ? and why 
should we be mentally honest and hospitable ? 
and why should we express our honest 
thoughts ? 

To this there is but one answer : for the 
benefit of mankind. 

The brain must be developed. The world 
must think. Speech must be free. The 
world must learn that credulity is not a vir- 
tue and that no question is settled until reason 
is fully satisfied. 



THE TRUTH. XI 

By these means man will overcome many 
of the obstructions of nature. He will cure 
or avoid many diseases. He will lessen 
pain. He will lengthen, ennoble and enrich 
life. In every direction he will increase his 
power. He will satisfy his wants, gratify his 
tastes. He will put roof and raiment, food 
and fuel, home and happiness within the 
reach of all. 

He will drive want and crime from the 
world. He will destroy the serpents of fear, 
the monsters of superstition. He will be- 
come intelligent and free, honest and serene. 

The monarch of the skies will be dethroned 
— the flames of hell will be extinguished. 
Pious beggars will become honest and useful 
men. Hypocrisy will collect no tolls from 
fear, lies will not be regarded as sacred, this 
life will not be sarcrificed for another, human 
beings will love each other instead of gods, 
men will do right, not for the sake of reward 
in some other world, but for the sake of hap- 
piness here. Man will find that Nature is the 



I2 THE TRUTH. 

only revelation, and that he, by his own 
efforts, must learn to read the stories told by 
star and cloud, by rock and soil, by sea and 
stream, by rain and fire, by plant and flower, 
by life in all its curious forms, and all the 
things and forces of the world. 

When he reads these stories, these records, 
he will know that man must rely on himself, 
— that the supernatural does not exist, and 
that man must be the providence of man. 

It is impossible to conceive of an argument 
against the freedom of thought — against 
maintaining your self-respect and preserving 
the spotless and stainless veracity of the soul. 



II. 

A LL that I have said seems to be true — 
almost self-evident, — and you may ask 
who it is that says slavery is better than lib- 
erty. Let me tell you. 

All the popes and priests, all the orthodox 
churches and clergymen, say that they have 
a revelation from God. 

The Protestants say that it is the duty of 
every person to read, to understand, and to 
believe this revelation — that a man should 
use his reason ; but if he honestly concludes 
that the Bible is not a revelation from God, 
and dies with that conclusion in his mind, he 
will be tormented forever. They say : — 
"Read," and then add: "Believe, or be 
damned." 

"No matter how unreasonable the Bible 

may appear to you, you must believe. No 

matter how impossible the miracles may 

seem, you must believe. No matter how 

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j^ THE TRUTH. 

cruel the laws, your heart must approve 
them all!" 

This is what the church calls the liberty 
of thought. 

We read the bible under the scowl and 
threat of God. We read by the glare of hell. 
On one side is the devil, with the instruments 
of torture in his hands. On the other, God, 
ready to launch the infinite curse. And the 
Church says to the readers: "You are free 
to decide. God is good, and he gives you 
the liberty to choose." 

The Popes and the Priests say to the poor 
people: " You need not read the Bible. You 
cannot understand it. That is the reason it 
is called a revelation. We will read it for 
you, and you must believe what we say. 
We carry the key of hell. Contradict us and 
you will become eternal convicts in the 
prison of God." 

This is the freedom of the Catholic church. 

And all these priests and clergymen insist 
that the Bible is superior to human reason — 



THE TRUTH. !^ 

that it is the duty of man to accept it — -to be- 
lieve it, whether he really thinks it is true or 
not, and without the slightest regard to evi- 
dence or reason. 

It is his duty to cast out from the temple of 
his soul the goddess Reason, and bow before 
the coiled serpent of Fear. 

This is what the church calls virtue. 

Under these conditions what can thought 
be worth ? The brain, swept by the sirocco 
of God's curse, becomes a desert. 

But this is not all. 

To compel man to desert the standard of 
Reason, the Church does not entirely rely on 
the threat of eternal pain to be endured in 
another world, but holds out the reward of 
everlasting joy. 

To those who believe, it promises the end- 
less ecstacies of heaven. If it cannot frighten, 
it will bribe. It relies on fear and hope. 

A religion, to command the respect of in- 
telligent men, should rest on a foundation of 
established facts. It should appeal, not to 



j6 the truth. 

passion, not to hope and fear, but to the 
judgment. It should ask that all the faculties 
of the mind, all the senses, should assemble 
and take counsel together, and that its claims 
be passed upon and tested without prejudice, 
without fear, in the calm of perfect candor. 

But the church cries: " Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." 
Without this belief there is no salvation. 
Salvation is the reward for belief. 

Belief is, and forever must be, the result of 
evidence. A promised reward is not evi- 
dence. It sheds no intellectual light It 
establishes no fact, answers no objection, and 
dissipates no doubt. 

Is it honest to offer a reward for belief? 

The man who gives money to a judge or 
juror for a decision or verdict is guilty of a 
crime. Why? Because he induces the 
judge, the juror to decide, not according to 
the law, to the facts, the right, but according 
to the bribe. 

The bribe is not evidence. 



THE TRUTH. I 7 

So, the promise of Christ to reward those 
who will believe is a bribe. It is an attempt 
to make a promise take the place of evidence. 
He who says that he believes, and does this 
for the sake of the reward, corrupts his soul. 

Suppose I should say that at the centre of 
the earth there is a diamond one hundred 
miles in diameter, and that I would give ten 
thousand dollars to any man who would be- 
lieve my statement. Could such a promise 
be regarded as evidence ? 

Intelligent people would ask not for re- 
wards, but reasons. Only hypocrites would 
ask for the money. 

Yet, according to the New Testament, 
Christ offered a reward to those who would 
believe, and this promised reward was to take 
the place of evidence. ( When Christ made 
this promise he forgot, ignored or held in 
contempt the rectitude of a brave, free and 
natural soul. } 

The declaration that salvation is the reward 
for belief is inconsistent with mental freedom, 



18 THE TRUTH. 

and could have been made by no man who 
thought that evidence sustained the slightest 
relation to belief. 

Every sermon in which men have been 
told that they could save their souls by be- 
lieving, has been an injury. Such sermons 
dull the moral sense and subvert the true 
conception of virtue and duty. 

The true man, when asked to believe, asks 
for evidence. The true man, who asks an- 
other to believe, offers evidence. 

But this is not all. 

In spite of the threat of eternal pain— of the 
promise of everlasting joy, unbelievers in- 
creased, and the churches took another step. 
( The churches said to the unbelievers, the 
heretics: "Although our God will punish 
you forever in another world— in his prison — 
the doors of which open only to receive, we, 
unless you believe, will torment you now." 

And then the members of these churches, 
led by priests, popes, and clergymen, sought 
out their unbelieving neighbors- — chained 



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them in dungeons, stretched them on racks, 
crushed their bones, cut out their tongues, 
extinguished their eyes, flayed them alive and 
consumed their poor bodies in flames. 

All this was done because these Christian 
savages believed in the dogma of eternal 
pain. Because they believed that heaven 
was the reward for belief. So believing, they 
were the enemies of free thought and speech 
— they cared nothing for conscience, nothing 

for the veracity of a soul, — nothing for the 
manhood of a man. In all ages most priests 
have been heartless and relentless. They have 
calumniated and tortured. In defeat they 
have crawled and whined. In victory they 
have killed. The flower of pity never blos- 
somed in their hearts and in their brain.* 
Justice never held aloft the scales. Now, 
they are not as cruel. They have lost their 
power, but they are still trying to accomplish 
the impossible. They fill their pockets with 
" fool's gold " and think they are rich. They 
stuff their minds with mistakes and think they 



20 THE TRUTH. 

are wise. They console themselves with le- 
gends and myths, have faith in fiction and 
forgery — give their hearts to ghosts and 
phantoms and seek the aid of the non-existent. 

They put a monster — a master — a tyrant 
in the sky, and seek to enslave their fel- 
lowmen. They teach the cringing virtues of 
serfs. They abhor the courage of man- 
ly men. They hate the man who thinks. 
They long for revenge. 

They warm their hands at the imaginary 
fires of hell. 

I show them that hell does not exist and they 
denounce me for destroying their consolation. 

Horace Greeley, as the story goes, one cold 
day went into a country store, took a seat by 
the stove, unbuttoned his coat and spread out 
his hands. 

In a few minutes, a little boy who clerked 
in the store said : " Mr. Greeley there aint no 
fire in that stove." 

II You d — d little rascal," said Greeley, " what 
did you tell me for, I was getting real warm." 



III. 



"THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY." 

A LL the sciences — except Theology — are 
^* eager for facts — hungry for the truth. 
On the brow of a finder of a fact the laurel is 
placed. 

In a theological seminary, if a professor finds 
a fact inconsistent with the creed, he must 
keep it secret or deny it, or lose his place. 
Mental veracity is a crime, cowardice and 
hypocrisy are virtues. 

A fact, inconsistent with the creed, is de- 
nounced as a lie, and the man who declares 
or announces the fact is a blasphemer. Ev- 
ery professor breathes the air of insincerity. 
Every one is mentally dishonest. Every one 
is a pious fraud. Theology is the only dis- 
honest science — the only one that is based on 

belief — on credulity, — the only one that ab- 

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22 THE TRUTH. 

hors investigation, that despises thought and 
denounces reason. 

All the great theologians in the Catholic 
church have denounced reason as the light 
furnished by the. enemy of mankind — as the 
road that leads to perdition. All the great 
Protestant theologians, from Luther to the 
orthodox clergy of our time, have been the 
enemies of reason. All orthodox churches of 
all ages have been the enemies of science. 
They attacked the astronomers as though 
they were criminals — the geologists as 
though they were assassins. They regarded 
physicians as the enemies of God — as men 
who were trying to defeat the decrees of 
Providence. The biologists, the anthropolo- 
gists, the archaeologists, the readers of an- 
cient inscriptions, the delvers in buried cities, 
were all hated by the theologians. They were 
afraid that these men might find something 
inconsistent with the Bible. 

The theologian attacked those who studied 
other religions. They insisted that Christi- 



THE TRUTH. 23 

anity was not a growth — not an evolution — 
but a revelation. They denied that it was 
in any way connected with any natural re- 
ligion. 

The facts now show beyond all doubt that 
all religions came from substantially the same 
source — but there is not an orthodox Chris- 
tian theologian who will admit the facts. He 
must defend his creed — his revelation. He 
cannot afford to be honest. He was not ed- 
ucated in an honest school. He was not 
taught to be honest. He was taught to be- 
lieve and to defend his belief, not only against 
argument but against facts. 

There is not a theologian in the whole 
world who can produce the slightest, the 
least particle of evidence tending to show 
that the bible is the inspired word of God.J 

Where is the evidence that the book of 
Ruth was written by an inspired man? 
Where is the evidence that God is the author 
of the Song of Solomon ? Where is the evi- 
dence that any human being has been in- 



24 THE TRUTH. 

spired ? Where is the evidence that Christ 
was and is God ? Where is the evidence that 
the places called heaven and hell exist? — 
where is the evidence that a miracle was ever 
wrought ? 

There is noneJ 

Theology is entirely independent of ev- 
idence. 

Where is the evidence that angels and 
ghosts — that devils and gods exist? Have 
these beings been seen or touched ? Does 
one of our senses certify to their existence ? 

The theologians depend on assertions. 
They have no evidence. They claim that 
their inspired book is superior to reason and 
independent of evidence. 

They talk about probability — analogy — 
inferences — but they present no evidence. 
They say that they know that Christ lived, 
in the same way that they know that Caesar 
lived. They might add that they know 
Moses talked with Jehovah on Sinai the same 
way they know that Brigham Young talked 



THE TRUTH. 25 

with God in Utah. The evidence in both 
cases is the same, — none in either. 

How do they prove that Christ rose from 
the dead ? They find the account in a book. 
Who wrote the book ? They do not know. 
What evidence is this? None, unless all 
things found in books are true. 

It is impossible to establish one miracle ex- 
cept by another — and that would have to be 
established by another still, and so on with- 
out end. Human testimony is not sufficient 
to establish a miracle. Each human being, 
to be really convinced, must witness the mir- 
acle for himself. 

They say that Christianity was established 
— proven to be true by miracles wrought 
nearly two thousand years ago. Not one of 
these miracles can be established except by 
impudent and ignorant assertion — except by 
poisoning and deforming the minds of the ig- 
norant and the young. To succeed, the theo- 
logians invade the cradle, the nursery. In 
the brain of innocence they plant the seeds of 



26 THE TRUTH. 

superstition. They pollute the minds and 
imaginations of children. They frighten the 
happy with threats of pain — they soothe the 
wretched with gilded lies. 

This perpetual insincerity stamps itself on 
the face — affects every feature. We all know 
the theological countenance, — cold, unsym- 
pathetic, cruel, lighted with a pious smirk, — 
no line of laughter — no dimpled mirth — no 
touch of humor — nothing human. 

This face is a rebuke, a reprimand to natu- 
ral joy. It says to the happy: " Beware of 
the dog" — " Prepare for death." This face, 
like the fabled Gorgon, turns cheerfulness to 
stone. It is a protest against pleasure — a 
warning and a threat. 

You see every soul is a sculptor that fash- 
ions the features, and in this way reveals 
itself. 

Every thought leaves its impress. 

The student of this science of theology 
must be taught in youth, — in his mother's 
arms. These lies must be sown and planted 



THE TRUTH. 27 

in his brain the first of all. He must be 
taught to believe, to accept without question. 
He must be told that it is wicked to doubt, 
that it is sinful to enquire — that Faith is a 
virtue and unbelief a crime, 

In this way his mind is poisoned, paralyzed. 
On all other subjects he has liberty — and in 
all other directions he is urged to study and 
think. From his mother's arms he goes to 
the Sunday school. His poor little mind is 
filled with miracles and wonders. He is told 
about a God who made the world and who 
rewards and punishes. He is told that this 
God is the author of the Bible — that Christ is 
his son.— He is told about original sin and 
the atonement, and he believes what he hears. 
No reasons are given — no facts — no evidence 
is presented — nothing but assertion. If he 
asks questions, he is silenced by more sol- 
emn assertions and warned against the de- 
vices of the evil one. Every Sunday School 
is a kind of inquisition where they torture 
and deform the minds of children — where 



28 THE TRUTH. 

they force their souls into Catholic or Pro- 
testant moulds — and do all they can to de- 
stroy the originality, the individuality, and 
the veracity of the soul. In the theological 
seminary the destruction is complete. 

When the minister leaves the seminary, 
he is not seeking the truth. He has it. 
He has a revelation from God, and he 
has a creed in exact accordance with that 
revelation. His business is to stand by 
that revelation and to defend that creed. 
Arguments against the revelation and the 
creed he will not read, he will not hear. All 
facts that are against his religion he will 
deny. It is impossible for him to be candid. 
The tremendous "verities" of eternal joy, 
of everlasting pain are in his creed, and they 
result from believing the false and denying 
the true. 

Investigation is an infinite danger, unbe- 
lief is an infinite offence and deserves and 
will receive infinite punishment. In the 
shadow of this tremendous "fact" his courage 



THE TRUTH. 29 

dies, his manhood is lost, and in his fear he 
cries out that he believes, whether he does or 
not. 

He says and teaches that credulity is safe 
and thought dangerous. Yet he pretends to 
be a teacher — a leader, one selected by God 
to educate his fellowmen. 

These orthodox ministers have been the 
slanderers of the really great men of our cen- 
tury. They denounced Lyell, the great geol- 
ogist, for giving facts to the world. They 
hated and belittled Humboldt, one of the 
greatest and most intellectual of the race. 
They ridiculed and derided Darwin, the great- 
est naturalist, the keenest observer, the best 
judge of the value of a fact, the most wonder- 
ful discoverer of truth that the world has pro- 
duced. 

In every orthodox pulpit stood a traducer 
of the greatest of scientists — of one who filled 
the world with intellectual light. 

The church has been the enemy of every 
science, of every real thinker, and for n^any 



30 THE TRUTH. 

centuries has used her power to prevent intel- 
lectual progress. 

Ministers ought to be free. They should 
be the heralds of the ever coming day, but 
they are the bats, the owls that inhabit ruins, 
that hate the light. They denounce honest 
men who express their thoughts, as blas- 
phemers, and do what they can to close their 
mouths. For their bible they ask the pro- 
tection of law. They wish to be shielded 
from laughter by the legislature. They ask 
that the arguments of their opponents be an- 
swered by the courts. This is the result of 
a due admixture of cowardice, hypocrisy and 
malice. 

What valuable fact has been proclaimed 
from an orthodox pulpit ? What ecclesias- 
tical council has added to the intellectual 
wealth of the world ? 

Many centuries ago the church gave to 
Christendom a code of laws, stupid, unphilo- 
sophic and brutal to the last degree. 

The church insists that it has made man 



THE TRUTH. 31 

merciful and just. Did it do this by torturing 
heretics — by extinguishing their eyes — by 
flaying them alive ? Did it accomplish this 
result through the Inquisition — by the use of 
the thumb-screw, the rack and the fagot? 
Of what science has the church been the 
friend and champion? What orthodox 
church has opened its doors to a persecuted 
truth ? Of what use has Christianity been to 
man? 

They tell us that the church has been and 
is the friend of education. I deny it. The 
church founded colleges not to educate men, 
but to make proselytes, converts, defenders. 
This was in accordance with the instinct of 
self-preservation. No orthodox church ever 
was, or ever will be in favor of real education. 
A Catholic is in favor of enough education to 
make a Catholic out of a savage, and the 
Protestant is in favor of enough education to 
make a Protestant out of a Catholic, but both 
are opposed to the education that makes free 
and manly men. 



32 THE TRUTH. 

So, ministers say that they teach charity. 
This is natural. They live on alms. All 
beggars teach that others should give. 

So, they tell us that the church has built 
hospitals. This is not true. Men have not 
built hospitals because they were Christians, 
but because they were men. They have not 
built them for charity — but in self-defence. 

If a man comes to your door with the small- 
pox, you cannot let him in, you cannot kill 
him. As a necessity, you provide a place for 
him. And you do this to protect yourself. 
With this Christianity has had nothing 
to do. 

The church cannot give, because it does 
not produce. It is claimed that the church 
has made men and women forgiving. I ad- 
mit that the church has preached forgiveness, 
but it has never forgiven an enemy — never. 
Against the great and brave thinkers it has 
coined and circulated countless lies. Never 
has the church told, or tried to tell, the truth 
about an honest foe. 



THE TRUTH. 33 

The church teaches the existence of the 
supernatural. It believes in the divine sleight- 
of-hand — in the " presto" and " open sesame" 
of the Infinite; in some invisible Being who 
produces effects without causes and causes 
without effects; whose caprice governs the 
world and who can be persuaded by prayer, 
softened by ceremony, and who will, as a re- 
ward for faith, save men from the natural 
consequences of their actions. 

The church denies the eternal, inexorable 
sequence of events. 

What Good has the Church Accom- 
plished ? 

It claims to have preached peace because its 
founder said, "I came not to bring peace 
but a sword." 

It claims to have preserved the family be- 
cause its founder offered a hundred-fold here 
and life everlasting to those who would de- 
sert wife and children. 

So, it claims to have taught the brother- 



34 THE TRUTH. 

hood of man and that the gospel is for all the 
world, because Christ said to the woman of 
Samaria that he came only to the lost sheep 
of the house of Israel, and declared that it 
was not meet to take the bread of the children 
and cast it unto dogs. 

In the name of Christ, who threatened 
eternal revenge, it has preached forgive- 
ness. 

Of what Use are the Orthodox 
Ministers ? 

They are the enemies of pleasure. They 
denounce dancing as one of the deadly sins. 
They are shocked at the wickedness of the 
waltz — the pollution of the polka. They are 
the enemies of the theatre. They slander 
actors and actresses. They hate them be- 
cause they are rivals. They are trying to 
preserve the sacredness of the Sabbath. It 
fills them with malice to see the people 
happy on that day. They preach against 
excursions and picnics — against those who 



THE TRUTH. 35 

seek the woods and the sea, the shadows and 
the waves. They are filled with holy wrath 
against bicycles and bloomers. They are op- 
posed to divorces. They insist that for the 
glory of God husbands and wives who loathe 
each other should be compelled to live together. 
They abhor all works of fiction, and love the 
bible. They declare that the literary master- 
pieces of the world are unfit to be read. They 
think that the people should be satisfied with 
sermons and poems about death and hell. 
They hate art — abhor the marbles of the 
Greeks, and all representations of the human 
form. They want nothing painted or sculptured 
but hands, faces and clothes. Most of the 
priests are prudes, and publicly denounce what 
they secretly admire and enjoy. In the pres- 
ence of the nude they cover their faces with 
their holy hands, but keep their fingers 
apart. They pretend to believe in moral 
suasion, and want everything regulated 
by law. If they had the power, they 
would prohibit everything that men and 
women really enjoy. They want libraries, 
museums and art galleries closed on the Sab- 



36 THE TRUTH. 

bath. They would abolish the Sunday paper 
— stop the running of cars and all public 
conveyances on the holy day, and compel all 
the people to enjoy sermons, prayers and 
psalms. 

These dear ministers, when they have poor 
congregations, thunder against trusts, syndi- 
cates, and corporations — against wealth, fash- 
ion and luxury. They tell about Dives and 
Lazarus, paint rich men in hell and beg- 
gars in heaven. If their congregations are 
rich they turn their guns in the other direc- 
tion. 

They have no confidence in education — 
in the development of the brain. They ap- 
peal to hopes and fears. They ask no one 
to think — to investigate. They insist that all 
shall believe. Credulity is the greatest of 
virtues, and doubt the deadliest of sins. 

These men are the enemies of science — 
of intellectual progress. They ridicule and 
calumniate the great thinkers. They deny 
everything that conflicts with the " sacred 



THE TRUTH. 37 

scriptures. " They still believe in the astron- 
omy of Joshua and the geology of Moses. 
They believe in the miracles of the past, and 
deny the demonstrations of the present. 
They are the foes of facts — the enemies of 
knowledge. A desire to be happy here, they 
regard as wicked and worldly — but a desire 
to be happy in another world, as virtuous and 
spiritual. 

Every orthodox church is founded on mis- 
take and falsehood. Every good orthodox 
minister asserts what he does not know, and 
denies what he does know. 

What are the Orthodox Clergy 
Doing for the Good of Mankind? 

Absolutely nothing. 

What harm are they doing? 

On every hand they sow the seeds of 
superstition. They paralyze the minds, and 
pollute the imaginations of children. They 
fill their hearts with fear. By their teachings, 
thousands become insane. With them, hy- 



38 THE TRUTH. 

pocrisy is respectable and candor infamous. 
They enslave the minds of men. Under their 
teachings men waste and misdirect their 
energies, abandon the ends that can be ac- 
complished, dedicate their lives to the impos- 
sible, worship the unknown, pray to the 
inconceivable, and become the trembling 
slaves of a monstrous myth born of ignorance 
and fashioned by the trembling hands of 
fear. 

Superstition is the serpent that crawls and 
hisses in every Eden and fastens its poison- 
ous fangs in the hearts of men. 

It is the deadliest foe of the human race. 

Superstition is a beggar — a robber, a ty- 
rant. 

Science is a benefactor. 

Superstition sheds blood. 

Science sheds light. 

The dear preachers must give up the ac- 
count of creation — the Garden of Eden, the 
mud-man, the rib-woman, and the walking, 
talking, snake. They must throw away the 



THE TRUTH. 39 

apple, the fall of man, the expulsion and the 
gate guarded by angels armed with swords. 
They must give up the flood and the tower 
of Babel and the confusion of tongues. 
They must give up Abraham and the wres- 
tling match between Jacob and the Lord. 
So, the story of Joseph, the enslavement of 
the Hebrews by the Egyptians, the story of 
Moses in the bullrushes, the burning bush, 
the turning of sticks into serpents, of water 
into blood, the miraculous creation of frogs, 
the killing of cattle with hail and changing 
dust into lice, all must be given up. The 
sojourn of forty years in the desert, the open- 
ing of the Red Sea, the clothes and shoes 
that refused to wear out, the manna, the 
quails and the serpents, the water that ran up 
hill, the talking of Jehovah with Moses, face 
to face, — the giving of the Ten Command- 
ments ; the opening of the earth to swallow 
the enemies of Moses — all must be thrown 
away. 

These good preachers must admit that 



40 THE TRUTH. 

blowing horns could not throw down the 
walls of a city — that it was horrible for 
Jepthah to sacrifice his daughter — that the 
day was not lengthened and the moon 
stopped for the sake of Joshua, — that the 
dead Samuel was not raised by a witch — 
that a man was not carried to heaven in a 
chariot of fire, that the river Jordan was not 
divided by the stroke of a cloak, that the 
bears did not destroy children for laughing 
at a prophet, that a wandering soothsayer 
did not collect lightnings from heaven to de- 
stroy the lives of innocent men;— that he did 
not cause rain and make iron float — that 
ravens did not keep a hotel where preachers 
got board and lodging free, that the shadow 
on a dial was not turned back ten degrees to 
show that a king was going to recover from 
a boil — that Ezekiel was not told by God how 
to prepare a dinner — that Jonah did not take 
cabin passage in a fish — and that all the mir- 
acles in the old Testament are not allegories, 
or poems, but just old-fashioned lies. And 



THE TRUTH. 4 1 

the dear preachers will be compelled to ad- 
mit that there never was a miraculous babe 
without a natural father, that Christ if he 
lived, was a man and nothing more. That 
he did not cast devils out of folks — that he 
did not cure blindness with spittle and clay, 
nor turn water into wine, nor make fishes and 
loaves of bread out of nothing — that he did 
not know where to catch fishes with money 
in their mouths — that he did not take a walk 
on the water — that he did not at will become 
invisible— that he did not pass through closed 
doors — that he did not raise the dead — that 
angels never rolled stones from a sepulchre 
— that Christ did not rise from the dead and 
did not ascend to heaven. 

All these mistakes, and illusions and delu- 
sions — all these miracles and myths must 
fade from the minds of intelligent men. 

My dear preachers, I beg you to tell the 
truth. Tell your congregations that Moses 
was not the author of the Pentateuch. Tell 
them that nobody knows who wrote the five 



42 THE TRUTH. 

books. Tell them that Deuteronomy was 
not written until about six hundred years be- 
fore Christ. Tell them that nobody knows 
who wrote Joshua, or Judges or Ruth, Sam- 
uel, Kings, or Chronicles, Job or the Psalms, 
or the Song of Solomon. Be honest, tell the 
truth. Tell them that nobody knows who 
wrote Esther — that Ecclesiastes was written 
long after Christ— that many of the prophe- 
cies were written after the events pretended 
to be foretold had happened. Tell them that 
Ezekiel and Daniel were insane. Tell them 
that nobody knows who wrote the gospels, 
and tell them that no line about Christ writ- 
ten by a cotemporary has been found. Tell 
them that it is all guess — and may be and 
perhaps — be honest. Tell the truth, develop 
your brains, use all your senses and hold 
high the torch of Reason. 

In a few years the pulpits will be filled 
with teachers instead of preachers — with 
thoughtful, brave, and honest men. The 
congregations will be civilized — intellectually 
honest and hospitable. 



THE TRUTH. 43 

Now, most of the ministers insist that the 
old falsehoods shall be treated with reverence 
— that ancient lies with long white beards — 
wrinkled and bald headed frauds — round- 
shouldered and toothless miracles, and palsied 
mistakes on crutches, shall be called allegor- 
ies, parables, oriental imagery, inspired po- 
ems. In their presence the ungodly should 
remove their hats. They should respect the 
mould and moss of antiquity. They should 
remember that these lies, these frauds, the 
miracles and mistakes, have for thousands of 
years ruled, enslaved, and corrupted the hu- 
man race. 

These ministers ought to know that their 
creeds are based on imagined facts and de- 
monstrated by assertion. 

They ought to know that they have no 
evidence. — Nothing but promises and threats. 
They ought to know that it is impossible to 
conceive of force existing without and before 
matter — that it is equally impossible to con- 
ceive of matter without force — that it is im- 



44 THE TRUTH. 

possible to conceive of the creation or de- 
struction of matter or force, — that it is impos- 
sible to conceive of infinite intelligence 
dwelling from eternity in infinite space, and 
that it is impossible to conceive of the crea- 
tor, or creation, of substance. 

The God of the Christian is an enthroned 
guess — a perhaps — an inference. 

No man, and no body of men, can answer 
the questions of the Whence and Whither. 
The mystery of existence cannot be explained 
by the intellect of man. 

Back of life, of existence, we cannot go — 
beyond death we cannot see. All duties, all 
obligations, all knowledge, all experience, are 
for this life, for this world. 

We know that men and women and chil- 
dren exist. We know that happiness, for the 
most part, depends on conduct. 

We are satisfied that all the gods are phan- 
toms and that the supernatural does not exist. 

We know the difference between hope and 
knowledge, we hope for happiness here and 



THE TRUTH. 45 

we dream of joy hereafter, but we do not 
know, we cannot assert, we can only hope, 
we can have our dream. In the wide night 
our star can shine and shed its radiance on 
the graves of those we love, we can bend 
above our pallid dead and say, that beyond 
this life there are no sighs — no tears — no 
breaking hearts. 



CONCLUSION. 

ET us be honest. Let us preserve the 
veracity of our souls. Let education 
commence in the cradle — in the lap of the 
loving mother. This is the first school. 
The teacher, the mother, should be abso- 
lutely honest. 

The nursery should not be an asylum for 
lies. 

Parents should be modest enough to be 
truthful — honest enough to admit their ig- 
norance. Nothing should be taught as true 
that cannot be demonstrated. 

Every child should be taught to doubt, to 
enquire, to demand reasons. Every soul 
should defend itself — should be on its guard 
against falsehood, deceit, and mistake, and 
should beware of all kinds of confidence men, 

including those in the pulpit. 

(46) 



THE TRUTH. 47 

Children should be taught to express their 
doubts — to demand reasons. The object of 
education should be to develop the brain, to 
quicken the senses. Every school should 
be a mental gymnasium. The child should 
be. equipped for the battle of life. Credulity, 
implicit obedience, are the virtues of slaves 
and the enslavers of the free. All should 
be taught that there is nothing too sacred 
to be investigated — too holy to be under- 
stood. 

Each mind has the right to lift all curtains, 
withdraw all veils, scale all walls, explore 
all recesses, all heights, all depths for it- 
self, in spite of church or priest, or creed or 
book. 

The great volume of Nature should be 
open to all. None but the intelligent and 
honest can really read this book. Prejudice 
clouds and darkens every page. Hypocrisy 
reads and misquotes, and credulity accepts 
the quotation. Superstition cannot read a 
line or spell the shortest word. And yet this 



48 THE TRUTH. 

volume holds all knowledge — all truth, and 
is the only source of thought. Mental liber- 
ty means the right of all to read this book. 
Here the Pope and Peasant are equal. Each 
must read for himself — and each ought to 
honestly and fearlessly give to his fellow- 
men what he learns. 

There is no authority in churches or 
priests — no authority in numbers or majori- 
ties. The only authority is Nature — the 
facts we know. Facts are the masters, the 
enemies of the ignorant, the servants and 
friends of the intelligent. 

Ignorance is the mother of mystery and 
misery, of superstition and sorrow, of waste 
and want. 

Intelligence is the only light. It enables 
us to keep the highway, to avoid the ob- 
structions, and to take advantage of the forces 
of nature. It is the only lever capable of 
raising mankind. To develop the brain is to 
civilize the world. Intelligence reaves the 
heavens of winged and frightful monsters — 



THE TRUTH. 49 

drives ghosts and leering fiends from the 
darkness, and floods with light the dungeons 
of fear. 

All should be taught that there is no evi- 
dence of the existence of the supernatural — 
that the man who bows before an idol of 
wood or stone is just as foolish as the one 
who prays to an imagined God, — that all 
worship has for its foundation the same mis- 
take — the same ignorance, the same fear — 
that it is just as foolish to believe in a per- 
sonal god as in a personal devil — just as 
foolish to believe in great ghosts as little ones. 

So, all should be taught that the forces, the 
facts in Nature, cannot be controlled or 
changed by prayer or praise, by supplication, 
ceremony, or sacrifice — that there ' is no 
magic, no miracle, that force can be overcome 
only by force, and that the whole world is 
natural. ; 

All should be taught that man must pro- 
tect himself — that there is no power superior 
to Nature that cares for man — that Nature 



50 THE TRUTH. 

has neither pity nor hatred — that her forces 
act without the slightest regard for man — 
that she produces without intention and 
destroys without regret. 

All should be taught that usefulness is the 
bud and flower and fruit of real religion. 
The popes and cardinals, the bishops, priests 
and parsons are all useless. They produce 
nothing. They live on the labor of others. 
They are parasites that feed on the frightened. 
They are vampires that suck the blood of 
honest toil. Every church is an organized 
beggar. Every one lives on alms — on alms 
collected by force and fear. Every orthodox 
church promises heaven and threatens hell 
and these promises and threats are made for 
the sake of alms, for revenue. Every church 
cries " Believe and give." A new era is 

A new era is dawning on the world. We 
are beginning to believe in the religion of 
usefulness. 

The men who felled the forests, cultivated 
the earth, spanned the rivers with bridges 
of steel, built the railways and canals, the 



THE TRUTH. 5 1 

great ships — invented the locomotives and 
engines, supplying the countless wants of 
man. The men who invented the telegraphs 
and cables, and freighted the electric spark 
with thought and love. The men who in- 
vented the looms and spindles that clothe the 
world, the inventors of printing and the great 
presses that fill the earth with poetry, fiction 
and fact, that save and keep all knowledge 
for the children yet to be. The inventors of all 
the wonderful machines that deftly mould from 
wood and steel the things we use. The men 
who have explored the heavens and traced 
the orbits of the stars — who have read the 
story of the world in mountain range and 
billowed sea. The men who have lengthened 
life and conquered pain. The great philoso- 
phers and naturalists who have filled the 
world with light. The great poets whose 
thoughts have charmed the souls, the great 
painters and sculptors who have made the 
canvas speak, the marble live. The great 



52 THE TRUTH. 

orators who have swayed the world, the com- 
posers who have given their souls to sound, 
the captains of industry, the producers, the 
soldiers who have battled for the right, the 
vast host of useful men. These are our 
Christs, our apostles and our saints. The 
triumphs of science are our miracles. The 
books filled with the facts of Nature are our 
sacred scriptures, and the force that is in every 
atom and in every star — in everything that 
lives and grows and thinks, that hopes and 
suffers, is the only possible god. 

The absolute we cannot know — beyond the 
horizon of the Natural we cannot go. All 
our duties are within our reach — all our obli- 
gations must be discharged here, in this 
world. Let us love and labor — Let us wait and 
work. Let us cultivate courage and cheer- 
fulness — open our hearts to the good — our 
minds to the true. Let us live free lives. 
Let us hope that the future will bring peace 
and joy to all the children of men, and above 
all, let us preserve the veracity of our souls. 



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the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D. ; to which is added a Talmagian Catechism, 
and four Prefaces, which contain some of Mr. Ingersoll's wittiest and brightest 
sayings. 

Containing 1431 pages, bound in cloth, gold back and side stamps. 
Price, post-paid, $3.50, Half morocco, $5.00. Full sheep, law style, 
#5.00 

This is an entirely new edition and a handsomely proportioned book. 

Volume IK Will follow soon, containing all of his latest letlures. 

The Warfare of Science with Theology A History 

of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. By 
Andrew D. White, LL. D., late President and Professor of His- 
tory at Cornell University. In 2 volumes. 8vo. Cloth, $5.00. 

We all know from a fragment here and another there of general history that 
the church has forever been the opponent of science, that every invention has 
been denounced as the work of the devil, that new ideas have been suppressed 
with instruments of torture, and that the students of nature have uniformly 
been condemned as blasphemers. Professor Draper, in his ''Warfare of Re- 
ligion and Science," did the best that has been done up to the time of his death 
to show how belief and knowledge have been arrayed one against the other 
through the bloody centuries of religious domination, but his work may al- 
most be called meagre compared with that of Dr. White. All who can afford 
the luxury will do well to equip their libraries with "The Warfare of Science 
and Theology." They contain an aggregate of nearly one thousand large 
pages ; they bring the'warfare up to date and afford a history of the fight be- 
tween evolution and creation not hitherto written. It is likely to be placed on 
the papal Index Expurgatorius, and no doubt the Protestant' church will take 
small pains to encourage its circulation. A war with science is a battle against 
liberty, enlightenment, and human improvement, and this the church has un- 
ceasingly waged. This is undoubtedly one of the great works of this century. 

Foxe's Book Of Martyrs. By Dr. A. Clarke. Introdudory 
Essay. Life of John Foxe, etc. Presentation edition, large 
octavo, cloth extra, gilt, with full-page illustrations. Price $3.00 ; 
thin paper edition, cloth, illustrated, $2.00. 



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PartOfl, James. Life of Benjamin Franklin. With Portraits. 
In two volumes, 8vo, gilt top, $5.00. 

Life of Thomas Jefferson. With Portrait. 8vo, gilt 

top, $2.50. 

Life of Andrew Jackson. With Portraits, in 3 vols., 

8vo, gilt top r $7.50. 

Life Of Horace Greeley. With Portrait and Illustra- 
tions. New Edition. 8vo, gilt top, $2.50. 

Famous Americans of Recent Times. 8vo, gilt 



top, $2.50. 

Smoking and Drinking. New Edition. Cloth, $1.00; 

paper, 50 cents. 

Captains of Industry. With Portraits, $1.25. 

Life Of Voltaire. With Portraits, Illustrations, and fac- 
simile. 2 vols., 8vo, gilt top, $6.00 ; half calf, $10.00. 

Every student of history is interested in the lives of the greatest men and 
women of the world, James Parton is acknowledged to be the greatest of all 
Biographers. Mr. Parton has no superior as an historian, as his biographies 
and histories fully prove, but his great ability is even more manifest in his 
remarkable Life of Voltaire. In this monument of his stud3 T , research and 
scholarship, Mr. Parton has done his best. He is just and candid, discrimina- 
ting and exact, describing Voltaire as he was, as a philosopher, reformer, poet, 
and wit. It is a most interesting and instructive biography of a truly remark- 
able man, whether he is viewed as an unequaled champion of liberalism, a 
powerful and persevering opponent of all bigotry and superstition, or as an 
unrivaled and fertile scholar in the wide domain of every branch of literature. 

Parton's Life of Voltaire.— Every Christian should read Parton's Life of 
Voltaire that he may know how good and great Voltaire was, and every Infidel 
should read it that he may know how infamous the church has always been. 
In short, everybody should read it, because it is the best, the most delightful, 
artistic, and interesting biography ever written. — R. G. Ingersoll. 

Egyptian Book of the Dead. The most ancient and most 
important of the extant religious texts of ancient Egypt. Edited 
with introduction, a complete translation, and various chapters 
on its history, symbolism, etc., etc., by Charles H. S. Davis, 
M. D., Ph. D. With 99 full-page illustrations from the Turin and 
the Louvre Papyri, and 25 designs representing the Egyptian 
Gods. This is the must complete edition of the "Book of the 
Dead " ever published, and cannot fail to prove of great value to 
Orientalists, Egyptologists, and scholars generally. 

In order that the mythology and symbolism of the " Book of the 
Dead " may be thoroughly comprehended, an account is given of 
the Religion and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians, with chap- 
ters on Animal Worship, the Egyptian Pantheon, etc., and with 
representations of twenty-five of the Deities. Large quarto, $7.00 

Life of the Greeks and Romans, described from Ancient 

Monuments. By E. Guhl and W. Koner. Translated from the 
Third German Edition by F. Hueffer. With 543 Illustrations. 
Large 8vo, cloth, $2.50. 
"The result of careful and unwearied research in every nook and cranny of 
ancient learning. Nowhere else can the student find so many facts in illustra- 
tion of Greek and Roman methods and manners." — Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual 
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The History Of Creation; or the Development of the 
Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A 
Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and 
of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular. By Ernst 
Haeckel, Professor in. the University of Jena. The translation 
revised by Professor E. Ray Lankester. Illustrated with litho- 
graphic plates. 2 vols., i2mo, cloth, $5.00. 

The Evolution Of Man. A Popular Exposition of the Prin- 
cipal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the 
German of Ernst Haeckel, Professor in the University of Jena. 
With numerous Illustrations. 2 vols., i2mo, cloth, $5.00. 

The Life of Thomas Paine. By Moncure Daniel Conway. 
2 vols., S\ Portraits. Pp. xviii + 380-f- 489. $5.00 

Thomas Paine's Complete Works. Now for the first 

time collected. Political, Sociological, Religious, and Literary. 
Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway, with introduction and notes. 
4 vols., 8 J . This is the grandest monument ever dedicated to the 
memory of Thomas Paine. Per volume $2.50. 
"Mr. Conway's 'Life of Paine' is the first biography of tiie famous heretic- 
worthy to be so called. . . . Mr. Conway is deserving of much credit for the 
Eatience with which he has burrowed in contemporary records, in collateral 
iography, and into the hearsays and traditions that have seemed to promise 
some illumination of his long and painful way. He has brought many valuable 
and interesting things to light, the contemporary testimonies to the dignity of 
Paine's character, the graciousness of his behavior, and the value of his serv- 
ices which are brought together, are such as might have made a man less nat- 
urally vain extremely proud, while they completely overwhelm tr-e counter 
testimonials of his religious and political opponents. . . . When every 
abatement has been made, Paine's humanity was so large and pure that noth- 
ing could be sadder than the sense of ingratitude and desertion which over- 
whelmed him at the last."— Nation. 

The church, like a cobra, coiled on the grave of Thomas Paine, is ready to 
strike its fangs into any hand that would plant a flower-^. G. Ingersoll. 

The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Con- 
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Savages. By Sir John Lubbock, Bart, F. R. S. Fourth edi- 
tion, with numerous additions. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, $5.00. 
11 The first edition of this work was published in the year 1870. The work has 
been twice revised for the press in the interval, and now appears in its fourth 
edition enlarged to the extent of nearly two hundred pages^ including a full 
Index." 

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mains and the Manners and Customs of Mod- 
ern Savages. By Sir John Lubbock, Bart. Illustrated. 
8vo, cloth, $5.00. 
44 This is, perhaps, the best summary of evidence now in our possession con- 
cerning the general character of prehistoric times. The Bronze Age, The Stone 
Age, The Tumuli, The Lake Inhabitants of Switzerland, The Shell Mounds. The 
Cave Man, and The Antiquity of Man, are the titles of the most important 
chapters." 

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and its Inhabitants, considered as illustrative of Geologv. By- 
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Professor R. A. Proctor's Works. The Moon: her 

Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Conditions, with two 
Lunar Photographs and many Illustrations. By R. A. Proctor. 
New Edition. i2mo, cloth, $2.00. 

The Expanse Of Heaven, A Series of Essays on the 

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Proctor. i2mo, cloth, $1.75. 

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studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches. By 
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$1.25. Cheap edition, 75 els. 

Our Place Among Infinities. A Series of Essays 

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ties around us. To which are added Essays on the Jewish Sab- 
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Great Ice Age, and its Relation to the Antiquity 

Of Man. By James Gdikie. With Maps and Illustrations. 

i2mo, cloth, $7.50. 

The Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities. 

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illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks 
and Romans. By Anthony Rich, B. A. Crown 8vo. Reduced 
price. Cloth, $3.00. 

Hadyn's Dictionary of Dates Relating to all Ages 
and Nations, for Universal Reference. Compre- 
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Governments of Countries — Their Progress — Their Achieve- 
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This is the most comprehensive and reliable book of reference in this depart- 
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public or private, the first work selected should be 'Webster's International 
Dictionary;' the second, .' Hadyn's Dictionary of Dates,'" says an eminent 
scholar. 

"Hadyn's work, like the lucifer-match and the glass window, gives us the 
impression of being so altogether indispensable that it is difficult to imagine a 
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Spectator. 

Mosheim's Institutes of Ecclesiastical History. 

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MalthUS On Population. Anew edition, with full analysis 
and critical introduction, by G. T. Bettany, M. A. Large 8°. 
cloth, $2.00. 

World's Religions (The.) Describing the Doctrines, Rise, 
Practices, Priesthoods' and Moral Teachings of all the Principal 
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Bettany, M. A., B. Sc, author of "The World's Inhabitants," 
etc. With about 300 wood engravings. 8vo, cloth, $3.00. 

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at once. When these are gone there will be no more. This 
edition is translated from the fourth German edition by George 
Eliot, and contains 784 large octavo pages of solid reading. This 
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Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. 8°. cloth, $2.50. 
Woman, Church, and State. By Matilda Joslyn Gage. 

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the Christian new testament. By Kersey Graves, $1.50. 

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Men, Women, and Gods. Introduction by Robert G. 
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Is this Your Son My Lord? A Fascinating Story of Rad- 
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Father Tom and the Pope; or, a Night at the Vatican. 

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Great Ingersoll Controversy, containing an eloquent chdst- 

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GoodlOe's Birth Of the Republic. Compiled from the Na- 
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Haeckel (Ernest.) Visit to Ceylon, with Portrait, and Map 

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Half Hours with some Celebrated Freethinkers. 

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Des Cartes, M. de Voltaire, John Toland, Comte de Volney, Charles Blount, 
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Helvetius, Frances Wright, Zeno, Epicurus, Matthew 
Tindal, David Hume, Dr. Thomas Burnet, Thomas Paine, Baptiste de 
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History of a False Religion (Bulwer), & Origin of 

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History Of Christianity. Comprising all that relates to the Christian 

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also, a Vindication (never before published in this country) of "some pas- 
sages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters," by Edward Gibbon, Esq. 
With a Preface, Life of the Author, and Notes by Peter Eckler; also, 
Variorum Notes by Guizot, Wenck, Millman, "An English Churchman," 
and other scholars. "This important work contains Gibbon's complete 
TJieological writings, separate from his historical and miscellaneous works, 
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and numerous Engravings of mythological divinities. 864 po. , crown 8vo. 
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Horae Sabbaticae; Oran Attempt to Correct Certain Sup rstitious 
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Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions. In Nora 
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Paper, 25 cts Extra vellum cloth, 50 cts. 

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Some Mistakes of Moses. 2?o P p Paper, 50c.; cioth,$i.co 

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Ingersoll (R. G.) What Must we do to be Saved ? 

Analyzes the so-called gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and de- 
votes a chapter each to the Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyte- 
rians, Evangelical Alliance, and answers the question of the Christians as to 
what he proposes instead of Christianity— the religion of sword and fiame 
Paper 25 cents 

Blasphemy. Argument byR. G. Ingersoll in the Trial of C. B. 

Reynolds, at Morristown, N. J Paper, 25c; cloth, 50c 

Prose- Poems and Selections. Fifth edition, enlarged 

and revised. A handsome quarto, containing 383 pages. This is, beyond ques- 
tion, the cheapest and most elegant volume in Liberal literature. Its mechan- 
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of the greatest writer on the topics treated that has ever lived. 

Those who have not the good fortune to own all of Mr. Ingersoll 's published works, 
will have in this book of selections many bright samples of his lofty thought, his 
matchless eloquence, his wonderful imagery, and his epigrammatic and poetic 
power. The collection includes all of the "Tributes " that have become famous 
in literature— notably those to his brother E. C. Ingersoll, Lincoln, Grant, 
Beecher, Conklin, Courtlandt M. Palmer, Mary Fiske, Elizur Wright: his peer- 
less monographs on "The Vision of War," Love, Liberty, Art and Morality, 
Science, Nature, The Imagination, Decoration Day Oration, What is Poetry, 
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Volume 1. IngersolPs Lectures. New edition. Only 

authorized. Large octavo, wide margins, good paper, large 

type. Contents : 
The Gods ; Humboldt; Individuality: Thomas Paine ; Heretics and Heresies 
The Ghosts ; The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child ; The Centennial Oration, 
or Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1876. What I Know About Farming 
in Illinois ; Speech at Cincinnati in 1876, nominating James G. Blaine for the 
Presidency ; The Past Rises Before Me ; or, Vision of War, an extract from a 
Speech made at the Soldiers and Sailors Reunion at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
Sept. 21, 1876 ; A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll ; The Grant Banquet ; Crimes 
Against Criminals ; Tribute to the Rev. Alexander Clarke. Some Mistakes of 
Moses ; What Must We Do to be Saved ? Blasphemy, Argument in the trial of 
C B. Reynolds. Six Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll on Six Sermons by 
the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. ; to which is added a Talmagian Catechism, 
and four Prefaces, which contain some of Mr. Ingersoll's best and brightest 
sayings. 

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Volume II. Will follow soon , containing all of his latest letlures 

Ingersoll's Liberty in Literature. Testimonial to wait 

Whitman. "Let us put wreaths on the brows of the living" An address 
delivered in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1890, with Portrait of Whitman. Also 
contains the funeral oration Paper, 25 cents ; cloth, 50 cents. 

Thomas Paine's Vindication, a Reply to the New York 

Observer's Attack upon the Author-hero of the Revolution, by R. G. Ingersoll 
Paper 15cts 

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IngerSOll (R. G.) Orthodoxy. A Lecture Paper, 10 cents. 

Limitations Of Toleration. A Discussion between Col 

Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederick R. Coudert, and Ex-Governor Stewart L 
Woodford Paper, 10 cents 

Civil Rights Speech. With Speech of Hon. Fred'k Douglass 

Paper ,10 cents. 

Crimes Against Criminals. Delivered before the New 

York State Bar Association, at Albany, N. Y., Jan. 21, 1890 Paper, 10 cts. 

Lithograph of R. G. Ingersoll. 22x2s inch., heavy 

plate paper 50 cts. 

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AbOUt the Holy Bible. Just out. A new Lecture About 

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Shakespeare. Ingersoll's Great Lecture on Shakespeare, with a 

rare and handsome half-tone picture of the Kesselstadt Death Mask..Paper, 25c 

Lecture on Abraham Lincoln. Just out. with a 

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Voltaire % A Lecture. By Robert G. Ingersoll, with a Portrait of 

the great French Philosopher and Poet, never before published. .Paper, 25 c. 

The Great Ingersoll Controversy, containing the 

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IS Suicide a Sin? "Something Brand New!" Ingersoll's 

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Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child. Just out. 

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Patriotic Addresses. By coi. Robt g. ingersoll, re- 
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Which Way ? A Lecture, by Robert G. Ingersoll. Paper, 25 cts 

■ Some Reasons Why. A Lecture, by R. G. Ingersoll. Pa. 25c 

Myth and Miracle. A Lecture, by R. G. Ingersoll. Pa. 25c 

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Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy on Christianity. 

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HOW tO Reform Mankind. A Lecture Paper, 25 cts 

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Koran, The Or, Alkoran of Mahomet. "The Bible of the East." 
Translated into English from the original Arabic, with Notes and a Prelim- 
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Life Of JeSUS: By Ernest Renan Paper, 50 cts. ; cloth, $1.00 

Life Of ThOmaS Paine. By the editor of the National, with Preface 
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JVJAN IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FU- 

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Mahomet: His Birth, Character and Doctrine, 

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Mahomet, The Illustrious, by Godfrey higoins, Esq. 

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Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. The work contains 

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Martyrdom Of Man (The.) By Winwood Reade. This book is a 
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Meslier's Superstition in All Ages, jean Mesiier was a 

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The Crisis. 16 numbers. Written during the darkest hours of the American 
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Paine'S Vindication. A Reply to the New York Observer's attack 
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PAINE, together with his BIOGRAPHY, by 
Thomas Clio Kickman, and the Editor of "The 
National." 



Five Beautiful, Illustrated volumes, boxed. Crown 8vo., brown vellum 
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Political Works of Thomas Paine, Complete, in two 

vols., containing over 500 pp. each, with portrait and many illustrations. 
Crown 8vo., brown vellum cloth, gilt leather titles, $1.00 per vol. 

Vol. I. contains : Common Sense and the Epistle to the Quakers ; The 
Crisis, (the 16 Numbers Complete) ; A Letter to the Abbe Raynal ; Letter 
from Paine to Washington ; Letter from Washington to Paine ; Dissertation 
on Government, the Affairs of the Bank and Paper Money ; Prospects on the 
Rubicon ; or, an Investigation into the Causes and Consequences of the Poli- 
tics to be agitated at the next Meeting of Parliament ; Public Good, being an 
Examination into the claim of Virginia to the Western Territory, etc. 

Vol. II. contains : Rights of Man in two Parts, (Part I. being an Answer 
to Burke's Attack on the French Revolution ; Part II. contains Principle and 
Practice) ; Letter to Abbe Sieyes ; To the Authors of the Republican ; Letter 
Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation ; Letters to Lord 
Onslow ; Dissertation on First Principles of Government ; Letters to Mr. 
Secretary Dundas ; Speech in the French National Convention ; Reasons 
for Sparing the Life of Louis Capet ; Letter to the People of France ; On the 
Propriety of Bringing Louis XVI. to Trial ; Speech in the National Conven- 
tion on the Question, " Shall or shall not a Respite of the Sentence of Louis 
XVI. take place ?" To the People of France and the French Armies ; Decline 
and Fall of the English System of Finance ; Agrarian Justice, etc. 



Theological and Religious Works of Thos. Paine 

COMPLETE. Comprising the Age of Reason — an Investigation of True 
and Fabulous Theology; An Examination of the Prophecies of the coming of 
Jesus Christ ; The Books of Mark, Luke and John ; Contrary Doctrines in the 
New Testament between Matthew and Mark ; An Essay on Dreams ; 
Private Thoughts on a Future State ; A Letter to the Hon. Thomas 
Erskine; Religious Year of the Theophilanthropists ; Precise History 
of the Theophilanthropists ; A Discourse Delivered to the Society of 
Theophilanthropists at Paris ; A Letter to Camille Jordan ; Origin of Free- 
masonry ; The Names in the Book of Genesis ; Extract from a Reply 
to the Bishop of Llandaff ; The Book of Job; Sabbath or Sunday; Future 
State ; Miracles ; An Answer to a Friend on the Publication of the Age 
of Reason ; Letters to Samuel Adams and Andrew A. Dean ; Remarks 
on Robert Hall's Sermons ; The word Religion ; Cain and Abel ; The 
Tower of Babel ; To Members of the Society styling itself the Missionary 
Society ; Religion of Deism ; The Sabbath Day of Connecticut ; Ancient 
History ; Bishop Moore ; John Mason ; Books of the New Testament ; Deism 
and the Writings of Thomas Paine, etc. The work has also a fine Portrait of 
Paine, as Deputy to the National Convention in France, and portraits of 
Samuel Adams, Thomas Erskine, Camille Jordan, Richard Watson, and 
other illustrations. One vol., Crown 8vo., brown vellum cloth, gilt leather 
title, 432 pages. Paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00. 

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Paine's Poetical and Miscellaneous Works com- 

PLETE. Containing Introduction to the first number of the Pennsylvania 
Magazine ; The Snowdrop and Critic ; The Pennsylvania Magazine ; 
Liberty Tree ; The Death of General Wolfe ; Burning of Bachelors' Hall, 
1775; Contentment, or Confession; From the "Castle in the Air" to the 
• "Little Corner of the World;" What is Love? Lines Extempore, July, 
1808 ; Patriotic Song ; Sons of Columbia ; Land of Love and Liberty ; 
Address to Lord Howe ; Korah, Dathan and Abiram ; The Monk and the 
Jew; Farmer Short's Dog, Porter ; " Wise Men from the East;" A Long 
Nosed Friend ; Useful and Entertaining Hints ; A Fable of Alexander the 
Great; Cupid and Hymen ; To Forgetfulness ; Life and Death of Lord 
Clive ; Case of the Officers of Excise ; Salary of the Officers of Excise , 
Evils Arising from Poverty ; Qualifications of Officers ; Petition to the 
Board of Excise ; .better to 'Dr. Goldsmith ; To a Friend in Philadelphia ; 
On the Utility of Iron Bridges ; On the Construction of Iron Bridges; To 
the Congress of the United States ; To a Friend ; Anecdote of Lord Malms- 
bury ; To Thomas Clio Rickman ; Preface to General Lee's Memoirs; To a 
Gentleman at New York; The Yellow Fever; Letter to a Friend ; Address 
and Declaration ; To Elihu Palmer ; Thomas Paine at Seventy ; Letters to 
George Washington ; Memorial of Thomas Paine to Mr. Monroe ; Letters to 
the Citizens of the United States; Of the Old and New Testament; Com- 
munication ; To the Editor of the Prospect ; Religious Intelligence ; Re- 
marks by Mr. Paine ; Address from Bordentown ; To the English People 
on the Invasion of England ; To the French Inhabitants of Louisiana ; To 
the Citizens of Penns3'lvania on the Proposal for a Convention ; Of Consti- 
tutions, Governments, and Charters ; Remarks on the Political and Military 
Affairs of Europe ; Of the English Navy ; Remarks on Gov. Lewis's Speech 
to the Legislature at Albany ; Of Gunboats ; Ships of War, Gunboats, and 
Fortifications ; Remarks on Mr. Hale's Resolutions at Albany ; Letters to 
Morgan Lewis on the Prosecution of Thomas Farmer ; On the Question, 
Will there be War? On Louisiana and Emmissaries ; A Challenge to the 
Federalists to Declare their Principles ; Liberty of the Press ; Of the Affairs 
of England ; To the People of New York ; Reply to Cheetham ; The Emis- 
sary Cullen or Carpenter ; Communication on Cullen ; Federalists Beginning 
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Biography of Thomas Paine, by thomas clio rickman 

the intimate and life-long friend of Paine,— who respected and honored the 
11 Author-Hero of the Revolution " for his brilliant talents and unchanging 
devotion to the cause of civil liberty and mental freedom ; and who loved 
him for his sterling merits, his generous impulses, his unselfish character, 
and noble conduct. It was at the home of Mr. Rickman, in Upper Mary-le- 
Bone street, London, that Mr. Paine met and made the acquaintance of 
Mary Woolstonecraft, John Home Tooke, Dr. Priestly, Dr. Towers, Romney, 
the painter, Sharp, the engraver, Col. Oswald, and other celebrated Eng- 
lish reformers. To this biography is added 

The Life Of Thomas Paine, by the editor of the National, with 
Preface and Notes by Peter Eckler. The work is Illustrated with views 
of the Old Paine Homestead and Paine Monument at New Rochelle ; with 
a fine portrait of Thomas Paine, engraved by Mr. Sharp from the portrait 
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true likeness ;" also, with a full page illustration of the handwriting and 
signature of Mr. Paine, copied from a letter Paine addressed to Rickman, 
dated New York, July 12, '06. 

The work also contains portraits of the most prominent of Paine's friends and 
acquaintances in Europe and America, among whom are the following 
C. F. Volney ; Thomas Clio Rickman ; Oliver Goldsmith ; Joel Barlow ; Dr. 
Toseph Priestley ; Benjamin Franklin; Mary Woolstonecraft; John Home 
Tooke ; Brissot ; Condorcet ; Madame Roland ; James Monroe ; Danton ; 
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dismal fortress in which Louis XVI. was confined previous to his exe- 
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Charlotte Corday, his executioner. A portrait is also given of Rouget de 
Lisle, with a correct version in Frenctfof the Marseillaise Hymn, with the 
musical notes of the same, which, as Lamartine tells us, " rustled like a flag 
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44 It is a good book, and will do good."— Robert G. Ingersoll. 

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Essays and Criticisms, 

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